Lord Henry Wotton: 43 Movie Quotes with Audio – Page 3

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21 To get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

22 You forget that I am married and that the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary to both parties.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

23 I can believe anything provided that it is quite incredible. -I'm afraid this will seem so.

Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

24 There's only one way to get rid of a temptation and that's to yield to it. Resist it and the soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

25 There is nothing that can cure the soul but the senses. Just as there is nothing that can cure the senses but the soul.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

26 Which do you prefer, Gladys, Dorian Gray or his picture? -I like Dorian best. -You prefer him today, my dear, but when you're a young lady and are turning all the handsome heads in London, you may prefer the portrait.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

27 But adoring someone is certainly better than being adored. Being adored is a nuisance.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

28 You will discover that women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

29 You must admit that women give men the very gold of their lives. -But they invariably want it back in such small change.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

30 Women represent the triumph of matter over mind just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

George Sanders in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)